Zero Limits E-Book

Joe Vitale

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Seitenzahl: 296

Beschreibung

Praise For Zero Limits "This riveting book can awaken humanity. It reveals the simple power of four phrases to transform your life. It's all based in love by an author spreading love. You should get ten copies of it----one for you and nine to give away. It's that good." ---- Debbie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers "I love this book! I feel it will be the definitive personal-change/self-help book for at least a generation and viewed as a watershed event by historians. There is real potential for this book to start a movement that will end war, poverty, and the environmental devastation of our beloved planet." ---- Marc Gitterle, MD, www.CardioSecret.com "This book is like a stick of dynamite, and the moment you start reading, the fuse is lit. It blows away all the complex and confusing success paradigms of the past and reveals a refreshing and clear path to transform your life with just one simple step. As you explore Zero Limits with Vitale, be prepared for a journey that is both challenging and inspiring beyond anything you've imagined." ---- Craig Perrine, www.MaverickMarketer.com "There are more than 6 billion different manifestations of human existence on the planet?and only one of us here. In Zero Limits, Vitale has captured the truth that all great spiritual, scientific, and psychological principles teach at the most fundamental level. Boil it all down to the basics and the keys are quite simple---- the answer to all life's challenges is profound love and gratitude. Read this book; it's a reminder of the truth and ability you already possess." ---- James Arthur Ray, philosopher and bestselling author of Practical Spirituality and The Science of Success "Wow! This is the best and most important book Vitale has ever written!" ---- Cindy Cashman, www.FirstSpaceWedding.com "I couldn't put it down. This book elegantly sketches what I've learned and learned about in twenty-one years of personal study, and then it takes it to the next level. If you're looking for true peace along with 'the good stuff,' then this book is for you." ---- David Garfinkel, author of Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich "Zero Limits is Vitale's adventure into the most mind-altering reading experience of your life." ---- Joseph Sugarman, President, BluBlocker Sunglasses, Inc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

The Adventure Begins

Finding the World’s Most Unusual Therapist

Our First Conversation

The Shocking Truth about Intentions

What Exceptions?

I Love You

Eating with the Divine

The Evidence

How to Create Faster Results

How to Receive Greater Wealth

Skeptical Minds Want to Know

Choice Is a Limitation

Cigars, Hamburgers, and Killing the Divine

The Truth Behind the Story

Epilogue

APPENDIX A - Zero Limits Basic Principles

APPENDIX B - How to Heal Yourself (or Anyone Else) and Discover Health,Wealth, ...

APPENDIX C - Who’s in Charge?

Bibliography

Online Resources

About the Authors

Index

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Vitale, Joe, 1953-

Zero limits : the secret Hawaiian system for wealth, health, peace, and more /

Joe Vitale, Ihaleakala Hew Len. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

ISBN 978-0-470-10147-6 (cloth)

1. Success—Religious aspects. I. Hew Len, Haleakala. II. Title.

BL65.S84V’.4—dc22

2007002385

To Morrnah and Ka’i—Dr. Hew Len

To Mark Ryan and Nerissa—Dr.Vitale

Ho’oponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed, or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.

—Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, Ho’oponopono Master Teacher, creator of Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, named a Living Treasure of the State of Hawaii in 1983 by the Hongwanji Mission of Honolulu and the Hawaii State Legislature

Acknowledgments

Two key people deserve thanks for this book: Mark Ryan is the priceless friend who first told me the story of the unusual therapist you’re about to read about, and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len is that unusual therapist who has become my latest priceless friend. Nerissa, my love, is my main support person and domestic life partner. Matt Holt and my dear friends at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. are terrific people to know and work with. Suzanne Burns is my key assistant and publicist, and proofread an early draft of this manuscript. My master-mind group supported me in this project, including Jillian Coleman-Wheeler, Cindy Cashman, Craig Perrine, Pat O’Bryan, Bill Hibbler, and Nerissa Oden. Early readers of this book who helped me shape it and perfect it include Mark Weisser and Mark Ryan. I also want to thank the Divine for guiding me in the process of writing this book. I am grateful to all.

Preface

Where Peace Begins

Dear Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, the creator and first master teacher of Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, had on her desk a placard that read, “Peace begins with me.”

I witnessed this peace beyond all understanding as I worked and traveled with her from December 1982 to that fateful day in Kirchheim, Germany, in February 1992. Even as she lay in death on her bed surrounded by chaos, she exuded that stillness beyond all understanding.

It was my great good fortune and honor to have received the training from Morrnah in November 1982 and to have been in her presence for a decade. I have been doing Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono ever since. I am pleased that, with the help of my friend Dr. Joe Vitale, this message can now reach the world.

But the truth is it only has to reach you, through me, as we are all one and it all happens inside.

Peace of I, Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD Chairman Emeritus The Foundation of I, Inc. Freedom of the Cosmos www.hooponopono.orgwww.businessbyyou.com

Introduction

The Secret of the Universe

In 2006 I wrote an article titled “The World’s Most Unusual Therapist.” It was about a psychologist who helped heal an entire ward of mentally ill criminals—without ever seeing any of them professionally. He used an unusual healing method from Hawaii. Until 2004, I had never heard of him or his method. I searched for two years before I found him. I then learned his method and wrote that now-famous article.

That article swept the Internet. It was posted on newsgroups and e-mailed to huge lists of people from all walks of life. My own list at www.mrfire.com loved it, and passed it on to tens of thousands of others. They in turn forwarded it to family and friends. I estimate about five million people saw that article.

Everyone who read it found it hard to believe. Some were inspired. Some were skeptical. All wanted more.This book is a result of their desire and my quest.

Even if you’re a veteran of the five steps in my earlier book, The Attractor Factor, you may not understand the incredible insights I’m about to reveal to you here, at least not at first glance. The simple process I’m going to share in this book will help explain why I’ve been able to manifest some huge accomplishments without actually trying to make them happen. Here are a few of them:

• My Nightingale-Conant audio program, The Power of Outrageous Marketing, happened after I quit pounding on their door for 10 years.

• How did I go from homeless to poverty to struggling writer to published author to best-selling author to Internet marketing guru with no plan at all?

• My desire to attract a BMW Z3 sports car led to me being inspired with an Internet marketing idea no one had ever thought of before—which made me $22,500 in one day and a quarter of a million dollars in a year or so.

• My desire to buy and move into a Texas hill country estate when I was broke and going through a divorce led to me creating a new business that brought in $50,000 in one day.

• My huge weight loss of 80 pounds occurred after I gave up and opened myself to a new way to achieve my desire.

• My desire to be the author of a #1 best-selling book led to my writing a #1 best-selling book that I never planned to write at all and wasn’t even my idea.

• My appearance in a hit movie, The Secret, happened without my begging, pleading, intending, or orchestrating anything at all.

• My appearance on Larry King Live in November 2006, and again in March 2007, happened without my ever intending it.

• As I write these words, Hollywood hotshots are talking about turning my book, The Attractor Factor, into a movie, and still others are negotiating to get me my own television program.

The list could go on, but you get the idea. I have many miracles happening in my life.

But why are they happening?

I was once homeless. Today I’m a best-selling author, Internet celebrity, and multimillionaire.

What happened to me to create all this success?

Yes, I followed my dreams.

Yes, I took action.

Yes, I was persistent.

Haven’t a lot of other people done those same things and yet not achieved success?

What’s different?

If you look at the accomplishments I’ve listed with a critical eye, you might see that none of them were directly created by me. In fact, what they all have in common is a spirit of Divine planning, with me a sometimes unwilling participant.

Let me explain this another way: Toward the end of 2006 I taught a seminar called Beyond Manifestation (www.BeyondManifestation.com), which is heavily influenced by what I learned after I discovered the mysterious Hawaiian therapist and his method. In that event I asked everyone to list all the ways they knew to manifest or attract something in their life. They said things like affirmations, visualizations, intentions, body awareness methods, feeling the end result, scripting, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping, and many, many more. Once the group inventoried every single way they could come up with to create their own reality, I asked them if those ways worked all the time, without exception.

Everyone agreed they did not always work.

“Well, why not?” I asked them.

No one could say for sure.

I then hit the group with my observation:

“All of those ways have limitations,” I declared. “They are toys your mind plays with to keep you thinking you’re in charge. The truth is, you are not in charge, and the real miracles come when you let go of the toys and trust in a place inside yourself where there are zero limits.”

I then told them that where you want to be in life is behind all of those toys, which is behind the chatter of the mind and right there with what we call the Divine. I went on to explain that there are at least three stages to life, beginning with you as victim, then moving on to you as creator of your life, and ending—if you’re lucky—with you becoming servant to the Divine. In that last stage, which I’ll discuss later in this book, astonishing miracles happen—almost without you trying.

Earlier today I interviewed a goals expert for my Hypnotic Gold membership program. (See www.HypnoticGold.com.) He has written a dozen books and sold millions of copies of them. He knows how to teach people how to set goals. Most of his philosophy revolves around having a burning desire to accomplish something. But that’s an incomplete strategy. I asked him what he suggested when someone can’t find the motivation to set a goal, let alone complete it.

“If I knew that,” he began,“I’d be able to solve most of the problems in the world.”

He went on to say that you have to be hungry to achieve a goal. If you aren’t, you won’t keep up the discipline needed to focus on it and work toward it.

“But what if you’re not hungry enough?” I asked.

“Then you won’t reach your goal.”

“How do you make yourself hungry or motivated?”

He couldn’t answer.

And that’s the rub. At a certain point all the self-help and goal-setting programs fail. They come up against the troubling fact that if someone isn’t ready to achieve something, they won’t maintain the energy needed to manifest it. They’ll quit. Everyone knows this experience from setting resolutions on January 1st and forgetting them by January 2nd. The good intentions were there. But something deeper wasn’t in alignment with the conscious desires.

So how do you take care of that deeper state that isn’t “hungry”?

That’s where the Hawaiian method you’ll learn in the book comes in handy. It helps clean the unconscious, which is where the block resides. It helps dissolve the hidden programs that keep you from attaining your desires, whether health, wealth, happiness, or anything else. It all happens inside you.

I’ll explain all of this in the book you are holding right now. For now, consider this:

There’s a quote from Tor Norretranders’ book, The User Illusion, that sums up the essence of the mental roller-coaster ride you’re about to embark on: “The universe began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.”

In short, Zero Limits is about returning to the zero state, where nothing exists but anything is possible. In the zero state there are no thoughts, words, deeds, memories, programs, beliefs, or anything else. Just nothing.

But one day nothing saw itself in the mirror and you were born. From there, you created, and unconsciously absorbed and accepted, beliefs, programs, memories, thoughts, words, deeds, and more. Many of these programs go all the way back to the beginning of existence itself.

The whole purpose of this book is to help you to experience wonder moment by moment. From that place, miracles like the ones I described will happen to you.They’ll be unique to you. And they’ll be just as marvelous, magical, and miraculous.

My experience of this spiritual rocket ship into power beyond comprehension has been almost indescribable. I have success beyond my wildest dreams. I have new skills, and my level of love for myself and the world is on a level of understanding words often fail to describe. I live in a near-constant state of awe.

Let me put it this way: Everyone has a lens through which they view the world. Religions, philosophies, therapies, authors, speakers, gurus, and candlestick makers all perceive the world through a particular mind-set. What you’ll learn in this book is how to use a new lens to dissolve all other lenses. And once you succeed, you’ll be at the place I call zero limits.

Please understand that this is the first book in history to reveal this updated Hawaiian method for healing, called Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono. But also please understand that this is just one man’s experience with the method: mine. While this book is written with the blessing of the therapist who taught me the amazing method, everything to follow is written through my own lens of the world.To fully understand Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono, you need to attend a weekend training and experience it for yourself. (Trainings are listed at www.hooponopono.org and www.zerolimits.info.)

Finally, the entire essence of this book can be summed up in one phrase—a phrase you will learn to use; a phrase that reveals the ultimate secret of the universe; a phrase that I want to say to you and the Divine right now:

“I love you.”

Take a ticket and have a seat.The train into your soul is about to take off.

Hold on to your hat.

I love you. Aloha no wau ia oe.Dr. Joe Vitale (Ao Akua) Austin,Texas www.mrfire.com

The universe began when nothing saw itself in the mirror.

Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion

The Adventure Begins

Peace be with you, all my Peace.O ka Maluhia no me oe, Ku’u Maluhia a pau loa.

In August 2004, I was speaking and working a booth at the National Guild of Hypnotists annual convention. I enjoyed the people, the event, the energy, and the networking. But I wasn’t prepared for the life-changing event that would begin that day.

My friend Mark Ryan was working the booth with me. Mark is a hypnotherapist, as well. He’s very open-minded, curious, articulate, and penetrating when it comes to exploring life and all its mysteries. We often had conversations that lasted for hours.We talked about our heroes in therapy, from Milton Erickson to lesser-known shamans. It was during one of these conversations that Mark surprised me by asking,

“Have you ever heard of the therapist who healed people without ever seeing them?”

The question stopped me. I had heard of psychic healers and remote or distance healers, but Mark seemed to be suggesting something different.

“He’s a psychologist who healed an entire mental hospital full of the criminally insane, but he never saw a single patient.”

“What did he do?”

“He used a Hawaiian healing system called ho’oponopono.”

“Ho-oh-what?” I asked.

I asked Mark to repeat the term about a dozen times. I had never heard it before. Mark didn’t know the story, or the process, well enough to tell me much more. I admit I was curious, but I also confess that I was skeptical, as well. I figured this had to be an urban legend. Heal people without seeing them? Yeah, right.

Mark went on to tell me the following story:

“I had been traveling to Mount Shasta in California for about 16 years in search of myself,” Mark explained. “One friend there gave me a little booklet that I never forgot. It was white paper with blue ink. It was an article about this Hawaiian therapist and his method. I read that article over and over again for years. It didn’t describe what the therapist actually did, but it said he healed people with his method.”

“Where’s that article now?” I asked. I wanted to read it.

“I can’t find it,” Mark said. “But something told me to tell you about it. I know you don’t believe me, but I’m as fascinated as you are. I want to know more, too.”

A year passed before the next convention. During the intervening months, I poked around online but couldn’t find anything about any therapist who cured people without seeing them. Sure, there’s information on distance healing, where someone heals another without the other person being present, but I understood that the Hawaiian therapist didn’t do that. As I would come to learn, there’s no distance at all in the type of healing he did. On top of all that, I didn’t know how to spell ho’oponopono to look it up online. So I let it go.

Then, in 2005, at the next annual hypnosis convention, Mark again mentioned the therapist.

“Did you ever find anything about him?” he asked.

“I don’t know his name, and I don’t know how to spell ho-whatever that term is,” I explained. “So I couldn’t find a thing.”

Mark’s a go-getter.We took a break, pulled out my laptop, found a wireless Internet connection, and went searching. It didn’t take long to find the main and only official site for ho’oponopono at www.hooponopono.org. I looked around and saw a few articles. They gave me a quick overview of what I was about to get into.

I found a definition of ho’oponopono: “Ho’oponopono is a process of letting go of toxic energies within you to allow the impact of Divine thoughts, words, deeds, and actions.”

I had no idea what that meant, so I looked around some more. I found this:

“Simply put, Ho’oponopono means, ‘to make right,’ or ‘to rectify an error.’ According to the ancient Hawaiians, error arises from thoughts that are tainted by painful memories from the past. Ho’oponopono offers a way to release the energy of these painful thoughts, or errors, which cause imbalance and disease.”

Interesting, yes. But what did it mean?

As I explored the site, looking for information on the mysterious psychologist who healed people without seeing them, I learned that there is an updated form of ho’oponopono called Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono (SITH).

I didn’t pretend to know what all of this meant. Mark didn’t pretend, either. We were fellow explorers. Our laptop was the horse we rode into the wilderness of this new land. We were in search of answers. We eagerly typed forward.

We found an article that helped explain a few things:

Self I-Dentity Through Ho’oponoponoBeing 100 Percent Responsible for the Problems ofMy Clients

By Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, and Charles Brown, LMT

In traditional approaches to problem solving and healing, the therapist begins with the belief that the source of the problem is within the client, not within him. He believes that his responsibility is to assist the client in working through his problem. Could these beliefs have resulted in systemic burnout throughout the healing profession?

To be an effective problem solver, the therapist must be willing to be 100 percent responsible for having created the problem situation; that is, he must be willing to see that the source of the problem is erroneous thoughts within him, not within the client.Therapists never seem to notice that every time there is a problem, they are always present!

Being 100 percent responsible for actualizing the problem allows the therapist to be 100 percent responsible for resolving it. Using the updated Ho’oponopono approach, a process of repentance, forgiveness, and transmutation developed by Kahuna Lapa’au Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a therapist is able to have erroneous thoughts within himself and within the client transmuted into perfect thoughts of LOVE.

Her eyes brim with tears. Deep trenches enclose the corners of her mouth. “I am worried about my son,” Cynthia sighs softly. “He’s back on drugs again.” As she tells her painful story, I begin the cleaning of the erroneous thoughts within me that have actualized as her problem.

As erroneous thoughts are replaced by loving thoughts in the therapist and in his family, relatives, and ancestors, they are replaced too in the client and in her family, relatives, and ancestors.The updated Ho’oponopono process allows the therapist to work directly with the Original Source who can transmute erroneous thoughts into LOVE.

Her eyes dry up.The trenches around her mouth soften. She smiles, relief dawning across her face. “I don’t know why, but I’m feeling better.” I do not know why, either. Really. Life is a mystery except to LOVE, who knows all. I just let it go at that, and just thank LOVE from whom all blessings flow.

In problem solving using the updated Ho’oponopono process, the therapist first takes his I-Dentity, his Mind, and connects it up with the Original Source, what others call LOVE or GOD.With the connection in place, the therapist then appeals to LOVE to correct the erroneous thoughts within him that are actualizing as the problem for himself first and for the client second.The appeal is a process of repentance and forgiveness on the part of the therapist—“I am sorry for the erroneous thoughts within me that have caused the problem for me and for the client; please forgive me.”

In response to the repentance and forgiveness appeal of the therapist, LOVE begins the mystical process of transmuting the erroneous thoughts. In this spiritual correction process, LOVE first neutralizes the erroneous emotions that have caused the problem, be they resentment, fear, anger, blame, or confusion. In the next step, LOVE then releases the neutralized energies from the thoughts, leaving them in a state of void, of emptiness, of true freedom.

With the thoughts empty, free, LOVE then fills them with Itself. The result? The therapist is renewed, restored in LOVE. As the therapist is renewed so is the client and all involved in the problem.Where there was despair in the client, there is LOVE. Where there was darkness in her soul, there is now the healing Light of LOVE.

The Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono training teaches people who they are and how they can solve problems moment to moment, and in the process be renewed and restored in LOVE. The training begins with a two-hour free lecture. Attendees are given an overview of how thoughts within them actualize as spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, relational, and financial problems in their lives and in the lives of their families, relatives, ancestors, friends, neighbors, and associates. In the weekend training, students are taught what a problem is, where the problems are located, how to solve different kinds of problems using over 25 problem solving processes, and how to really take good care of themselves. The underlying emphasis in the training is on being 100 percent responsible for themselves and for what happens in their lives and for solving problems effortlessly.

The wonder of the updated Ho’oponopono process is that you get to meet yourself anew each moment, and you get to appreciate more and more with each application of the process the renewing miracle of LOVE.

I operate my life and my relationships according to the following insights:

1. The physical universe is an actualization of my thoughts.

2. If my thoughts are cancerous, they create a cancerous physical reality.

3. If my thoughts are perfect, they create a physical reality brimming with LOVE.

4. I am 100 percent responsible for creating my physical universe the way it is.

5. I am 100 percent responsible for correcting the cancerous thoughts that create a diseased reality.

6. There is no such thing as out there. Everything exists as thoughts in my mind.

Mark and I read the article and wondered which author was the therapist we sought: Charles Brown or this Dr. Hew Len. We didn’t know. We couldn’t tell. And who was this Morrnah the article mentioned? And what was Self I-Dentity Ho-oh-please?

We read on.

We found a few more articles that shed light on what we sought. They included revealing statements, such as: “Self I-Dentity through Ho’oponopono sees each problem not as an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are just replayed memories of the past showing up to give us one more chance to see with the eyes of LOVE and to act from inspiration.”

I was curious but I wasn’t getting it. Problems were “replayed memories of the past”? Huh? What were these authors trying to explain? How did this ho-whatever help the therapist who healed people? Who was this therapist, anyway?

I found yet another article, this one by a reporter named Darrell Sifford, who wrote about meeting the creator of this ho’opo-whatever process. Her name is Morrnah and she’s a kahuna, or keeper of the secrets.What this Morrnah does to help heal people is “appeal to the divine creator of our choice ‘through the divinity that is within each person . . . who is really an extension of the divine creator.’ ”

Maybe you understand that. I didn’t at the time. Neither did Mark. Apparently this Morrnah said some words, like a prayer, that helped people heal. I made a mental note to locate that prayer, but right now I was going on a different mission: to find the therapist and learn his method for healing. My eagerness to know more and to meet this shaman therapist was becoming more and more exciting. Even though Mark and I really needed to be back at our booth at the convention, we let it slide so we could continue our quest.

Based on the articles and web site, we guessed the therapist we wanted to find was named Ihaleakala Hew Len. Some first name. I had no idea how to pronounce it, let alone spell it. I didn’t know how to locate him, either. The site didn’t have any contact information for him. Mark and I tried to Google him, but turned up nothing. We began to wonder if this ethereal therapist was a fiction, or retired or even deceased.

I closed my laptop and went back to the convention.

But the adventure had begun.

Finding the World’s Most Unusual Therapist

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

—Carl Jung

Back in my home outside of Austin, Texas, I couldn’t shake the story of the therapist who cured people without seeing them. What was his method? Who was he? Was the story a hoax?

Because of my 20-some years in personal development, mostly chronicled in my books Adventures Within and The Attractor Factor, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that I needed to know more. I’ve always been curious. I spent seven years with a controversial guru. I interviewed self-help mentors and sages, authors and speakers, mystics and magicians of the mind. Because of the success of my current books, I could now call many of the leading experts in the field of human development my friends. But I couldn’t shake the story of this therapist.This was different.This was a breakthrough.

I needed to know more.

So I again went searching. In the past I’ve hired private detectives to locate missing people. I did it when I wrote about advertising genius Bruce Barton for my book The Seven Lost Secrets of Success. I was ready to hire a professional to find Dr. Hew Len, too, when an odd thing happened.

One day, while doing yet another search for Dr. Hew Len, I found his name associated with a web site. I have no idea why this didn’t surface before, in earlier searches. But there it was.

I couldn’t find a phone number. But I could hire Dr. Hew Len for a personal consultation by e-mail. It seemed like an odd way to do therapy, but in these Internet times, anything goes. Figuring that would be the best way to get a foot in his door, I sent him an e-mail through the web site. I was excited beyond words. I could hardly wait for his reply.What would he say? Would he write something enlightening? Would he heal me by e-mail?

I could barely sleep that night, I was so eager to hear from him. By the next morning, he responded, writing:

Joe:

Thank you for requesting a consultation. Consultations are usually done via the Internet or by fax. The person requesting the consultation provides information for me about the nature of the consultation, i.e., a description of a problem, of a concern. I process and meditate on the information for Divine directions. Then I communicate back to the person via e-mail what I received in meditation.

While I was out for lunch today, a lawyer-client from Hawaii faxed me information to look at. After processing it, I will get back to him what I received from Divinity in meditation.

Information about the nature of my work can be gained at www.hooponopono.org.

Please feel free to contact me to see what will work for you.

I wish you Peace beyond all understanding.

Peace of I,

Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD

It was an odd e-mail. He talks to Divinity? Lawyers hire him? I didn’t know enough yet to pass judgment on him or his methods, but I sure wanted to know more.

I instantly decided to hire him for a consultation by e-mail. It would cost $150. To me, that was nothing. I was finally going to hear from the long-sought-after miracle-working psychologist! I was excited!

I gave some thought to what I should ask him about. I’m doing pretty well in my life. I’ve got the books, the successes, the cars, homes, life partner, health, and happiness most people seek. I had lost 80 pounds and was feeling great, but I also had maybe 15 pounds left to release. Since I was still struggling with weight loss issues, I decided to ask Dr. Hew Len for a consultation about that. I did. He responded within 24 hours, writing this e-mail to me:

Thank you, Joe, for your reply.

When I looked I heard, “He’s fine.”

Talk to your body. Say to it: “I love you the way you are. Thank you for being with me. If you have felt abused by me in any way, please forgive me.” Stop now and then during the course of the day visit with your body. Let the visit be one of love and thankfulness. “Thank you for conveying me about. Thank you for breathing, for the beating of our heart.”

See your body as a partner in your life, not as a servant. Talk to your body as you would talk to a little child. Be friends with it. It likes lots and lots of water to work better with its self. You may feel that it is hungry, yet it may be telling you that it is thirsty.

Drinking Blue Solar Water transmutes memories, replaying problems in the subconscious mind (the Child), and helps the body to “Let go and let God.” Get a blue glass bottle. Fill it up with tap water. Cork the top of the bottle or wrap the top in cellophane. Place the bottle in the sun or under an incandescent lamp for at least one hour. Drink the water; rinse your body with the water after bathing or showering. Use the Blue Solar Water to cook with, wash your clothes with, and for whatever you use water for. You can make your coffee or hot chocolate with Blue Solar Water.

Your e-mail has the feel of elegant simpleness, a gift beyond compare.

Perhaps we can visit again as a fellow traveler clearing our way homeward.

I wish you Peace beyond all understanding.

Peace of I,

Ihaleakala

While I enjoyed the peacefulness of his message, I was left wanting more. Was this how he gave consultations? Was this how he healed those people in the mental hospital? If so, something was seriously missing. I doubt that most people would have accepted his e-mail as the final verdict on a weight loss issue. Telling me, “You’re fine” isn’t exactly a solution to anything.

I wrote back, asking for more information. Here’s what he wrote in reply:

Joe:

Peace begins with me.

My problems are memories replaying in my subconscious. My problems have nothing to do with anyone or anyplace or any situation. They are what Shakespeare so poetically noted in one of his sonnets as “fore-bemoanèd moans.”

When I experience memories replaying problems, I have choice. I can stay engaged to them or I can petition Divinity to free them up through transmutation, thus restoring my mind to its original state of zero, of void . . . of being memory free. When I am memory free, I am my Divine Self as Divinity created me in its exact likeness.

When my subconscious is in zero state, it is timeless, boundless, infinite, deathless. When memories dictate, it is stuck in time, place, problems, uncertainty, chaos, thinking, coping, and managing. In allowing memories to rule, I give up clarity of mind, along with my alignment with Divinity. No Alignment, no Inspiration. No Inspiration, no Purpose.

In working with people, I’m always petitioning Divinity to transmute memories within my subconscious that replay as my perceptions, my thoughts, my reactions of them. From zero state, Divinity then suffuses my subconscious and conscious minds with Inspirations, allowing my Soul to experience people as Divinity experiences them.

In working with Divinity, the memories that get transmuted in my subconscious are transmuted in the subconscious of all minds, not just of people but of the mineral, animal, and vegetable kingdoms and all forms of existence seen and unseen. How wonderful to realize that Peace and Freedom begin with me.

Peace of I,

Ihaleakala